My aunt drove to the mall, locked the car, and then found out she could not get back into the car. Turns out that she had started her car using her husbands keys, both owned the same brand of car but not the same model. Now his key would actually not start her car which I guess might be attributed to wear on one mechanism or another... but I don't know for sure.
Back in the 80s my Ford key would also unlock a few other Fords that friends had in the dorm. I could not start any but it was interesting to find out how many of us could unlock other cars.
Now I have never seen a keyless entry fob work on more than the car it was assigned to.
Already we have toll roads. We have examples of where special lanes are set aside for people who are willing to pay more for better service. So how is complaining about internet providers doing the same different?
The only time it becomes a problem is if they purposely slow down the connection. Not granting it access to the newest high speed line is not the same thing. If some provider builds up a special section of their network to provide better throughput then by all means they should have the opportunity to sell it, if they can. Still I believe most of it is going to require a lot more investment than the returns would allow for.
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(in Atlanta it has been suggested to make some lanes paid access on a tiered scale... didn't my taxes pay for this interstate already? Oh yeah they did, but they haven't paid for the new lanes now have they?) Same logic.
Which would I prefer? The same for everyone but I do know that there are people right now who pay for faster access as it is. When dial up was good enough they went ISDN or T1/T3/etc. Some still do even with DSL/Cable speeds. There will always be a market for people who believe they need it now. Let them have it. So far the rest of the net has been just fine for me.
Want a real weapon of mass destruction, look no further than the amazing amounts of junk food sold. the stuff is pure crap. It does nothing to better your health and in fact worsens it in many ways.
the stuff sold in supermarkets/convienence stores makes what fast food resturaunts sell look like health food.
One thing I would use this for is fishing through a series. There are always episodes worth watching over and over again. Before this the only ways to find them was to luck out on reruns, hope someone could nail it down with hints on a messageboard/usenet, or bittorrent/emule in hopes of finding it.
Now I can download them for free which eliminates much of the issues. It benefits the studios as they will probably release the series and shows on DVD in the future and should I want a high quality "legal" version I will know which set to buy.
As for the ads, good compromise.
Now just bring back old series that are no longer aired and only in syndication so I can hunt and peck through those.
One thing I kept from my low skill days is my disdain of monthlies.
You want some real money? Simple, avoid nickle and diming yourself with all these monthly bills.
I have a pre paid cell phone. Since I have a regular phone line, without any of the silly add ons like caller id and such, I only need a cell phone for occasional use. While others I know spend 40 to 50 bucks a month I spend an average of 7 to 10 a month. Cable? I have basic cable for less that $15 a month instead of the big packages that are 40 to 60 in range. I do splurge with DSL but negotiated with my provider and only pay 40 instead of the normal 50 that most of their subscribers pay. I keep a zero balance on my credit cards, never buying what I cannot pay off immediately. When I go to buy my new laptop I will be able to pay for it straight up. Sure it would be nice to have it now but then I would have a new monthly. I don't eat out every night or even every weekend. I don't eat out for lunch at work, I watch my co-workers spend 7 to 10 dollars a day for lunch on top of their morning coffee runs, hell I bring my own instant coffee to work!
Get into the habit of not loading yourself down with monthly bills and you will see that you can do quite a bit with little money. Get into the habit of not buying your coffee house coffee every morning, eating out for lunch at work, and running a credit card balance and your income will seem to be many times what it is. Even I don't like the current prices of gasoline but since I am not burdened down with all the frivolous extras many people cannot seem to live without I can sustain the higher price of gasoline without a lifestyle change. I only have two kinds of monthly payments, my house and my car. So top that off with my bills needed to maintain the house and I can buy lots of "toys - read computer junk etc" and appear to my friends and coworkers to have more than I do. It took a long time learning what is really needed to enjoy life. Look, marketing works. You get bombarded every single day of your life. Too many people fall for it. They become to believe they need all these things, after all its less than a dollar a day, why shouldn't they? Well all those dollars add up and they reduce your flexbility and ability to deal with emergencies. If you lose your job what are the first things your going to have to give up?
Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt. This means going without luxuries. I have friends who still work "dead end jobs" and they harp all the time about the fact they don't get paid enough. Yet they still want their cell phone, cable, high speed internet, and more. Of course its not sustainable on their income. Worse, all these "monthlies" they pay out keep them from having the money they need to get an education to move them up.
The real trap is that too many people are convinced they deserve the "extras" but don't want to do what it takes to have them. These jobs that people complain about are for the unskilled. We are no longer a low skill work force but we do have many jobs that are low to no skill. Every economy will have these jobs. They are mostly to introduce people to the workforce. As many know there are people out there who just are not fit to work in professional environments. They don't have the personality, the required restraint, or the discipline. As such they will work these low end jobs. Some will take on more than one.
When I worked for a large security company, think rent-a-cops, I was amazed at how little some of the people made. We even had a few of these people working the building and lot of the company. What I found was three types of people, there are obviously more. The first were students who needed a simple job with regular hours. Much of security work is sitting and they would take advantage of it by studying. They would do their walks and escort ladies to the vehicles upon request. The second were people in between "real jobs" who were doing what was necessary to keep their homes and their families comfortable. Many had the security job as their second job. The third group were the majority of our hires, they were the people with no initiative. They simply didn't want more to do. Their idea of a better job was one with even less to do! Don't underestimate the number of people who fall into this last category. Sure we can find many who are in these jobs that should be somewhere else but those people are the exception. They should be spending their off time looking for the better job and improving their skills to get that job. I know, I was in this category for 5 years after leaving the service. I got out and expected to be able to land a decent job yet I found that my skills were not needed or out of date. I spent 5 years in a "dead-end" grocery job and eventually got myself back into tech school with the help of friends and my parents.
It was an incentive to not live that way that helped me move on. During that time I did without the big cable package, cell phone, and high speed internet. I didn't party every night or see movies all the time. I had an out of date car and for most of the time a 8 year old motorcycle to get to and from work. Sure it sucked, but initiative is the key. Unless you want to improve your situation you won't, you'll just bitch about how unfair it all is and never get anywhere.
Paying a living wage can be a trap as well. What consititutes a living wage for one person is barely surviving for another. How do you decide? Also, how do you provide incentive for people to better themselves and their families position if even the bottom end jobs pay a living wage? This is the big lie being foisted on people. The caring elite don't want these people to succeed, they want them content in their bottom end jobs so they, the elite, can enjoy all their low cost living without feeling guilty. Keep the poor happy and have no guilt for living off them. Gee, how nice. The "American way" is to build a better life for yourself if possible and definitely for your children. A living wage does not necessarily encourage the attitude needed to do that. Its a crutch, like many social programs, that keeps people just comfortable enough to keep them from improving while removing any guild felt by those with more.
First, at least we are being told they happen and to what extent. At least our country still has that much going for it.
What is truly insane are all the ignorance many/. posters have. In a perfect world we would not have to worry about who comes here, who they have business with, and what they do. Unfortunately it has come to be that our freedom is easily exploited by those who wish us to do harm. The problem I have is that the very idea of trying to find these people seems to be an affront to the very people the government wants to protect.
You cannot have it both ways. We still have our freedom. We have a legal framework to keep tabs on what the government is doing. I am actually surprised that the number is so low. I look at it this way, the intelligence community is now having to make up for being slack for a very long time. It used to be viewed the our enemy was going to come from outside our borders. Instead we know through some public arrests that they are doing their best to come from within. They just don't sneak someone in and act in weeks, they set up operatives who attempt to blend in and build up a base from which to operate. They don't plan on the short term and neither can we.
People are worried that some government agency is going after bank records and phone records convienently ignore the fact that businesses do it all the time and legally. The government actually has to get permission from the courts. That is our protection. The idea of secret warrants has been around a long time. It is one way that the mobs were brought down. This is just another version of the same idea.
Yeah mistakes are going to be made, some people who have no guilt are going to have their records examined. Thats a small price to pay to at least try and stop another 9-11 from occuring. Yeah I know, its the right wings mantra, hide behind the fear of another 9-11. Too bad its a valid point. It sucks but there are far more loonies out there looking to deprive us of our freedom and lives than there are government workers trying to take your rights.
You freely give up your privacy to any number of corporations, publish your thoughts out in the open on the net, and yet when the government follows the laws established to insure that it operates in the intrest of you and others you cry about it?
Be more worried about the stuff they do we don't know. This at least is something going on that we can track.
As far as a great number not caring or not knowing enough. True on both accounts, and for the many here that fit the first category nothing will stop them from posting.
Name reminds me of AC's Wi Flag
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This is just something bizarre from another game....
The Wi Flag was a peculiar problem in the early Asheron's Call codebase that seemingly afflicted one paticular player, named Wi. Basically mobs zeroed in on him no matter when he showed up in an area and no matter who else was there.
The issue I see is that if your in a job you don't like, being it the hours, your boss, the location, or the work then why would you persist? You might as well shout out at the mountain for being between you and your goal. Instead what we end up with is people who rant on break, at lunch, or on message boards, about how bad things are yet they don't take the one step required to correct it, find another job.
I know the litany of excuses, I have used some myself. There is a comfort level even in the most impossible job that is hard to let go of. The uncertainty of a new job or the ability to find one are hard things to overcome. However if you do not take action you deserve your misery.
As for this situation being unique to the game industry, that is far from the truth. I have seen in throughout my professional career. A change in management can ruin the best of jobs. It can also take a bare bearable one and make it unbearable. The reverse is true as well. Many of us try to ride out the storm, relying on the old line of "just wait 3 years, we'll be back to X".
I'm glad they got something settled in this case, still I have to ask, why in the hell did these people stay and put up with this? Its quite possible many had no other option. Some employers rely on that. For those people there still is an option most overlook, that is learning something new that can get you out. For many that step is even harder than choosing a new employer.
First off the idea a car full of batteries does not appeal to me. What about a crash? Is every accident going to turn into a hazardous materials accident? I know its an exaggeration but the question I have is, why fixation on batteries?
Battery powered or assisted cars are a stop-gap. The only true replacement will be one where the driving public does not have to change their habits. What is the performance and longevity of these battery powered cars in the winters of the northern states?
I am still curious as to where diesel or gas electric designs are going. A small, 1l or so diesel running at a constant velocity should be able to drive about any car from the electricity it can generate. Dodge actually made an Intrepid concept car using this idea.
I'm all for my SUV being packed with a small diesel or gas motor that drives a generator which powers electric motors at the wheels. I am not for hauling batteries around or their equivalent (hydrogen). We have an infrastructure to move gasoline and diesel, exploit it.
The more I see of it the move to Hydrogen and the current crop of battery assisted/powered cars is nothing more than trying to glamorize a shift in how we conceive the automobile. Its a lot of marketing and very little real accomplishment. Most of these hybrids will never pay for themselves.
Just like ISPs are and held to accounts for it. When I played WOW they were good about refunding for extended downtime. Yet at no time do any of these pay to play games make any guarantee of service availabilty.
As far as their continuing stability and growth issues.
STOP SELLING THE DAMN GAME.
Sheesh, how hard is that to understand? If you cannot provide a stable set of servers and servers where people can play WHENEVER they want to then stop selling new copies until otherwise.
Hopefully with the number of professionals playing the game one of them will get annoyed enough to sue them in court, either to force a change by ruling or just having their named dragged into the mud.
Great, yet another reason to hold government jobs in disdain.
Not only will we have to pay for their surfing, because a judge has practically made it a "right", we get to fund their pensions as well.
Sorry, but government jobs that don't need access to the internet need to not have any access. Just as people make fun at work crews for lack of "working" while observed people will now make jokes about the city hall guy that just plays solitaire or surfs.
They are working for us, they already have nearly all holidays off, great pensions, and healthcare; it now appears they have new rights to keep their job when they are obviously not doing it.
Read up on government employee pensions, if you think the Social Security system is in trouble you ain't see the world of hurt the taxpayer is in for the overly large pensions/retirements given to government employess. People complain about CEOs and executive retirements but are kept in the dark about how much its really costing for those government employees to retire. It might not have the big numbers of one executive but it adds up very fast, even worse when many are allowed to retire in their 50s.
There is a cost benefit for AMD by going with DDR2. As Intel has been on DDR2 for some time and will be so for quite some time it will benefit by reducing system costs.
So maintaining exclusivity by making deals isn't illegal. What would be illegal would be manipulating the market so all top tier manufacturers don't use AMD. While Dell is by far the most well known largest direct seller of PCs they are not alone in the market and never will be.
AMD could have countered by making similar deals with any reseller they chose. The big problem AMD had was up until the Athlon and the most importantly the AMD64 chips they did not have a marketable advantage other than price. Their other issue has always been one of being able to supply the market. They simply did not have the FABs to do so.
Now if Intel were leveraging their microprocessors to also lock AMD out of flash memory sales or another related product you might have an angle you follow.
don't take the word function to literally. This could be as innocous as "does it look right". Akin to running a window31 version of software on XP. It might work fine but it certainly doesn't look or "feel" the same.
The motive is to better the chances of Linux being on the desktop. This means that your going to have some badly worded observations that say one thing to one group and something entirely else to another.
It is the casual user who controls the market. The buy what is sold to them and what is sold to them is the simplest software at the lowest price point. Windows is filling this bill because for the most part its insanely easy to use for the common user. Most will have passing familiarity with it from work or school. Throw them on OS/X and I bet a few would be confused initially but would adapt pretty quickly. Throw them on Linux and they should adapt as well, until they sit down at another Linux system using a different desktop and they will be confused as to what Linux is.
If standards like these are not in place it will forever be "vendor's Linux" or some marketing gimmicky name. Eventually people may restrict their development to a paticular vendor and their extensions. Its best to set the ground level and keep developers and users focused there. Otherwise you will continue to be fractured and just meander in the low % of users.
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The question we face as a nation and as a world is, are we going to allow the few to dictate to the many? Are we going to allow people to suffer, in some areas of the world opposition does lead to suffering or furthering of it, because of a few?
Too many times those opposing any development live no where near it. They travel to the sites to protest or wage dissent from afar.
What it comes down to is that there are groups that feel as if they are above us. They think it is their place to tell others what is good for them and that these "others" must do without because it is for "the best".
Power is a valuable resource. With it we can bring the standards of living up for those it is provided too. With renewable resources we can accomplish this with very little impact on future generations except for perhaps a better environment. Keeping development of alternative and renewable resources only furthers the negative impact currently "dirty" methods cause.
What is ever so appalling is that many of these elites are politically connected, well off, and imposing on those who cannot afford alternatives to live a lesser life. They would rather sacrifice the comfort of others just so they can feel righteous in their position. Sure some are truly out to help the environment but they are misguided as nothing will ever meet their standards. As soon as their standard is met they will update it or another group will step in with more stringent requirements.
We have to face one thing, whether or not we do something to free our dependance on dirty sources of power and dependance on others for power, other countries will move forward. They will do what is necessary to improve their lives while we forever come up with excuses to sit back and do nothing.
Civilizations do not advance by sitting still. They do not advance by listening to every naysayer who pops out of the woodwork. But they do decline when they do sit still and become hamstrung by the naysayers into doing nothing. It is no different on the political front in the world as it is in the environmental front. Both will go from bad to worse if we reason ourself into a corner.
That is the problem. Hate speech is the catch-all that can be used to shut down any speech which someone or some government entity determines to be offensive.
When promoting hate speech rules the people behind them will always use the most extreme examples of speech they can find. Yet when applied it never ceases to amaze me what gets branded under the category. You will also see groups label the speech of others as "hate speech". With the help of their sister groups they can repeat this claim enough to where people are so used to hearing it they start to believe it true.
Remove the "hate speech" exception and it might be a plausible rule, leave it there and suddenly you may find one day that you cannot speak out against your "righteous leaders"
but you already paid or someone you meet probably has.
This fine will pass right through the channels and come from the investors in the company or the purchasers of their products. Embedded it will hit consumers who use products and services of people who purchase Symantec products.
does not acknowledge fact that Asheron's Call 2 closed in December. Does not acknowledge any new launches since the last true update (D&DO).
In fact, is any of it valid?
Perhaps he attempts to claim validity by overwhelming us with numbers and pretty graphs? I admit that he first started his charts I believed there was valid data. As it has gone on I begin to seriously doubt its relevance.
Being able to transport items combat troops is definitely going to be a major use for these machines so I have to ask the question. How long before they are armed? After all if you can just shoot it up it pretty much negates its use, if it can target and return fire that would aid the mission. Of course if you can defend yourself you can be offensive.
This would not only be useful in "declared zones" but undeclared humanitarian ones as well. Think of a place like Dafur (who everyone refuses to allow combat troops to go to - NATO was told no as well) where you have militants who would definitely intefere with aid packages.
Machines like this could also be equipped to go places too hazardous or just generally inaccessible by normal means. Drop one or two off in the remote areas for monitoring of conditions... If they could survive forest fires they could be used to rescue smoke jumpers who get in trouble or deliver supplies over logging roads through already burning areas.
One of the few times automating transport is harder for ground based versus air based.
On another note, how long before some developer decides to make them look closer to some famous movie machines?
It should not amaze us how stupid a great many people are. Yet at the same time we should be careful what we assign to the category of "stupid". There are many valid reasons to put what you think and do on the internet. The understanding is that there may be reprecussions and for that you must be willing to be subject to them.
While this deals with criminal activity or intent never forget that laws change and are abused and what may be alright one day may not be the next. Never forget what laws exist in countries you travel because it isn't far off that you may find yourself in trouble while traveling all because your name showed up in some database because of what you put on the net.
We always bemoan the government and even businesses getting into our personal existance and yet many will go out of their way to make it available on the internet and never once think about what they have done. Its no different than wandering the shady side of town at night but not as obvious to most.
the same manufactures doing a couple of things. 1. Putting out all sorts of products using OLEDs, expanding beyond what we conceive of light being used for 2. Putting out specialty incadescents/flourescents that fill the gaps in the first
If anything this expands their market and an innovative company will take off. Not all lighted items need to provide illumination that is bright enough to read by. A lot can be done with highlights, accenting areas with different shades and such. Accent lighting will be a big, replacing LEDs that are currently trying to edge into that market. All the business uses will help as well. It would be far much easier to use these for instore billboards than the flourescent lit displays so common today.
Now another area is backgrounds. Better for business use than home, though some may use it in homes. Can't imagine my home looking like 1999's moonbase but I can see walls in certain types of businesses where the whole area is covered and changed in color for events and such.
Lighting products are not all about letting you see things, some exist to be seen
Put the machines next to each other in BB/CU or whereever you choose. People are going to go for the lower priced solution. Sure you will get some of the "gotta out do the Jones clique" types but most will just "settle for the windows pc"
Besides, most of the surveys are bunk. I know a great many people on both sides, one whose fulltime job is mac support, and they both can report nearly the same percentage of gripers.
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My aunt drove to the mall, locked the car, and then found out she could not get back into the car. Turns out that she had started her car using her husbands keys, both owned the same brand of car but not the same model. Now his key would actually not start her car which I guess might be attributed to wear on one mechanism or another... but I don't know for sure.
Back in the 80s my Ford key would also unlock a few other Fords that friends had in the dorm. I could not start any but it was interesting to find out how many of us could unlock other cars.
Now I have never seen a keyless entry fob work on more than the car it was assigned to.
Already we have toll roads. We have examples of where special lanes are set aside for people who are willing to pay more for better service. So how is complaining about internet providers doing the same different?
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The only time it becomes a problem is if they purposely slow down the connection. Not granting it access to the newest high speed line is not the same thing. If some provider builds up a special section of their network to provide better throughput then by all means they should have the opportunity to sell it, if they can. Still I believe most of it is going to require a lot more investment than the returns would allow for.
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(in Atlanta it has been suggested to make some lanes paid access on a tiered scale... didn't my taxes pay for this interstate already? Oh yeah they did, but they haven't paid for the new lanes now have they?) Same logic.
Which would I prefer? The same for everyone but I do know that there are people right now who pay for faster access as it is. When dial up was good enough they went ISDN or T1/T3/etc. Some still do even with DSL/Cable speeds. There will always be a market for people who believe they need it now. Let them have it. So far the rest of the net has been just fine for me.
Want a real weapon of mass destruction, look no further than the amazing amounts of junk food sold. the stuff is pure crap. It does nothing to better your health and in fact worsens it in many ways.
the stuff sold in supermarkets/convienence stores makes what fast food resturaunts sell look like health food.
I have installed a few machines recently and not once did I have to hunt down drivers to have a functional machine.
Now there are cases where there are newer drivers that I could go get should I need them but they are not required.
The big difference between installing Linux versus XP?
If I need drivers they most likely exist for XP.
One thing I would use this for is fishing through a series. There are always episodes worth watching over and over again. Before this the only ways to find them was to luck out on reruns, hope someone could nail it down with hints on a messageboard/usenet, or bittorrent/emule in hopes of finding it.
Now I can download them for free which eliminates much of the issues. It benefits the studios as they will probably release the series and shows on DVD in the future and should I want a high quality "legal" version I will know which set to buy.
As for the ads, good compromise.
Now just bring back old series that are no longer aired and only in syndication so I can hunt and peck through those.
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One thing I kept from my low skill days is my disdain of monthlies.
You want some real money? Simple, avoid nickle and diming yourself with all these monthly bills.
I have a pre paid cell phone. Since I have a regular phone line, without any of the silly add ons like caller id and such, I only need a cell phone for occasional use. While others I know spend 40 to 50 bucks a month I spend an average of 7 to 10 a month. Cable? I have basic cable for less that $15 a month instead of the big packages that are 40 to 60 in range. I do splurge with DSL but negotiated with my provider and only pay 40 instead of the normal 50 that most of their subscribers pay. I keep a zero balance on my credit cards, never buying what I cannot pay off immediately. When I go to buy my new laptop I will be able to pay for it straight up. Sure it would be nice to have it now but then I would have a new monthly. I don't eat out every night or even every weekend. I don't eat out for lunch at work, I watch my co-workers spend 7 to 10 dollars a day for lunch on top of their morning coffee runs, hell I bring my own instant coffee to work!
Get into the habit of not loading yourself down with monthly bills and you will see that you can do quite a bit with little money. Get into the habit of not buying your coffee house coffee every morning, eating out for lunch at work, and running a credit card balance and your income will seem to be many times what it is. Even I don't like the current prices of gasoline but since I am not burdened down with all the frivolous extras many people cannot seem to live without I can sustain the higher price of gasoline without a lifestyle change. I only have two kinds of monthly payments, my house and my car. So top that off with my bills needed to maintain the house and I can buy lots of "toys - read computer junk etc" and appear to my friends and coworkers to have more than I do. It took a long time learning what is really needed to enjoy life. Look, marketing works. You get bombarded every single day of your life. Too many people fall for it. They become to believe they need all these things, after all its less than a dollar a day, why shouldn't they? Well all those dollars add up and they reduce your flexbility and ability to deal with emergencies. If you lose your job what are the first things your going to have to give up?
Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt. This means going without luxuries. I have friends who still work "dead end jobs" and they harp all the time about the fact they don't get paid enough. Yet they still want their cell phone, cable, high speed internet, and more. Of course its not sustainable on their income. Worse, all these "monthlies" they pay out keep them from having the money they need to get an education to move them up.
The real trap is that too many people are convinced they deserve the "extras" but don't want to do what it takes to have them. These jobs that people complain about are for the unskilled. We are no longer a low skill work force but we do have many jobs that are low to no skill. Every economy will have these jobs. They are mostly to introduce people to the workforce. As many know there are people out there who just are not fit to work in professional environments. They don't have the personality, the required restraint, or the discipline. As such they will work these low end jobs. Some will take on more than one.
When I worked for a large security company, think rent-a-cops, I was amazed at how little some of the people made. We even had a few of these people working the building and lot of the company. What I found was three types of people, there are obviously more. The first were students who needed a simple job with regular hours. Much of security work is sitting and they would take advantage of it by studying. They would do their walks and escort ladies to the vehicles upon request. The second were people in between "real jobs" who were doing what was necessary to keep their homes and their families comfortable. Many had the security job as their second job. The third group were the majority of our hires, they were the people with no initiative. They simply didn't want more to do. Their idea of a better job was one with even less to do! Don't underestimate the number of people who fall into this last category. Sure we can find many who are in these jobs that should be somewhere else but those people are the exception. They should be spending their off time looking for the better job and improving their skills to get that job. I know, I was in this category for 5 years after leaving the service. I got out and expected to be able to land a decent job yet I found that my skills were not needed or out of date. I spent 5 years in a "dead-end" grocery job and eventually got myself back into tech school with the help of friends and my parents.
It was an incentive to not live that way that helped me move on. During that time I did without the big cable package, cell phone, and high speed internet. I didn't party every night or see movies all the time. I had an out of date car and for most of the time a 8 year old motorcycle to get to and from work. Sure it sucked, but initiative is the key. Unless you want to improve your situation you won't, you'll just bitch about how unfair it all is and never get anywhere.
Paying a living wage can be a trap as well. What consititutes a living wage for one person is barely surviving for another. How do you decide? Also, how do you provide incentive for people to better themselves and their families position if even the bottom end jobs pay a living wage? This is the big lie being foisted on people. The caring elite don't want these people to succeed, they want them content in their bottom end jobs so they, the elite, can enjoy all their low cost living without feeling guilty. Keep the poor happy and have no guilt for living off them. Gee, how nice. The "American way" is to build a better life for yourself if possible and definitely for your children. A living wage does not necessarily encourage the attitude needed to do that. Its a crutch, like many social programs, that keeps people just comfortable enough to keep them from improving while removing any guild felt by those with more.
First, at least we are being told they happen and to what extent. At least our country still has that much going for it.
/. posters have. In a perfect world we would not have to worry about who comes here, who they have business with, and what they do. Unfortunately it has come to be that our freedom is easily exploited by those who wish us to do harm. The problem I have is that the very idea of trying to find these people seems to be an affront to the very people the government wants to protect.
What is truly insane are all the ignorance many
You cannot have it both ways. We still have our freedom. We have a legal framework to keep tabs on what the government is doing. I am actually surprised that the number is so low. I look at it this way, the intelligence community is now having to make up for being slack for a very long time. It used to be viewed the our enemy was going to come from outside our borders. Instead we know through some public arrests that they are doing their best to come from within. They just don't sneak someone in and act in weeks, they set up operatives who attempt to blend in and build up a base from which to operate. They don't plan on the short term and neither can we.
People are worried that some government agency is going after bank records and phone records convienently ignore the fact that businesses do it all the time and legally. The government actually has to get permission from the courts. That is our protection. The idea of secret warrants has been around a long time. It is one way that the mobs were brought down. This is just another version of the same idea.
Yeah mistakes are going to be made, some people who have no guilt are going to have their records examined. Thats a small price to pay to at least try and stop another 9-11 from occuring. Yeah I know, its the right wings mantra, hide behind the fear of another 9-11. Too bad its a valid point. It sucks but there are far more loonies out there looking to deprive us of our freedom and lives than there are government workers trying to take your rights.
You freely give up your privacy to any number of corporations, publish your thoughts out in the open on the net, and yet when the government follows the laws established to insure that it operates in the intrest of you and others you cry about it?
Be more worried about the stuff they do we don't know. This at least is something going on that we can track.
As far as a great number not caring or not knowing enough. True on both accounts, and for the many here that fit the first category nothing will stop them from posting.
This is just something bizarre from another game....
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The Wi Flag was a peculiar problem in the early Asheron's Call codebase that seemingly afflicted one paticular player, named Wi. Basically mobs zeroed in on him no matter when he showed up in an area and no matter who else was there.
A little history about the flag is here,
http://www.vitaerising.com/modules.php?op=modload
and then the fix for it came along here..
http://www.vitaerising.com/modules.php?op=modload
So I guess Nintendo is not worried about turning off all of Asheron's Call current and former players
The issue I see is that if your in a job you don't like, being it the hours, your boss, the location, or the work then why would you persist? You might as well shout out at the mountain for being between you and your goal. Instead what we end up with is people who rant on break, at lunch, or on message boards, about how bad things are yet they don't take the one step required to correct it, find another job.
I know the litany of excuses, I have used some myself. There is a comfort level even in the most impossible job that is hard to let go of. The uncertainty of a new job or the ability to find one are hard things to overcome. However if you do not take action you deserve your misery.
As for this situation being unique to the game industry, that is far from the truth. I have seen in throughout my professional career. A change in management can ruin the best of jobs. It can also take a bare bearable one and make it unbearable. The reverse is true as well. Many of us try to ride out the storm, relying on the old line of "just wait 3 years, we'll be back to X".
I'm glad they got something settled in this case, still I have to ask, why in the hell did these people stay and put up with this? Its quite possible many had no other option. Some employers rely on that. For those people there still is an option most overlook, that is learning something new that can get you out. For many that step is even harder than choosing a new employer.
First off the idea a car full of batteries does not appeal to me. What about a crash? Is every accident going to turn into a hazardous materials accident? I know its an exaggeration but the question I have is, why fixation on batteries?
Battery powered or assisted cars are a stop-gap. The only true replacement will be one where the driving public does not have to change their habits. What is the performance and longevity of these battery powered cars in the winters of the northern states?
I am still curious as to where diesel or gas electric designs are going. A small, 1l or so diesel running at a constant velocity should be able to drive about any car from the electricity it can generate. Dodge actually made an Intrepid concept car using this idea.
I'm all for my SUV being packed with a small diesel or gas motor that drives a generator which powers electric motors at the wheels. I am not for hauling batteries around or their equivalent (hydrogen). We have an infrastructure to move gasoline and diesel, exploit it.
The more I see of it the move to Hydrogen and the current crop of battery assisted/powered cars is nothing more than trying to glamorize a shift in how we conceive the automobile. Its a lot of marketing and very little real accomplishment. Most of these hybrids will never pay for themselves.
Just like ISPs are and held to accounts for it. When I played WOW they were good about refunding for extended downtime. Yet at no time do any of these pay to play games make any guarantee of service availabilty.
As far as their continuing stability and growth issues.
STOP SELLING THE DAMN GAME.
Sheesh, how hard is that to understand? If you cannot provide a stable set of servers and servers where people can play WHENEVER they want to then stop selling new copies until otherwise.
Hopefully with the number of professionals playing the game one of them will get annoyed enough to sue them in court, either to force a change by ruling or just having their named dragged into the mud.
Great, yet another reason to hold government jobs in disdain.
Not only will we have to pay for their surfing, because a judge has practically made it a "right", we get to fund their pensions as well.
Sorry, but government jobs that don't need access to the internet need to not have any access. Just as people make fun at work crews for lack of "working" while observed people will now make jokes about the city hall guy that just plays solitaire or surfs.
They are working for us, they already have nearly all holidays off, great pensions, and healthcare; it now appears they have new rights to keep their job when they are obviously not doing it.
Read up on government employee pensions, if you think the Social Security system is in trouble you ain't see the world of hurt the taxpayer is in for the overly large pensions/retirements given to government employess. People complain about CEOs and executive retirements but are kept in the dark about how much its really costing for those government employees to retire. It might not have the big numbers of one executive but it adds up very fast, even worse when many are allowed to retire in their 50s.
There is a cost benefit for AMD by going with DDR2. As Intel has been on DDR2 for some time and will be so for quite some time it will benefit by reducing system costs.
So maintaining exclusivity by making deals isn't illegal. What would be illegal would be manipulating the market so all top tier manufacturers don't use AMD. While Dell is by far the most well known largest direct seller of PCs they are not alone in the market and never will be.
AMD could have countered by making similar deals with any reseller they chose. The big problem AMD had was up until the Athlon and the most importantly the AMD64 chips they did not have a marketable advantage other than price. Their other issue has always been one of being able to supply the market. They simply did not have the FABs to do so.
Now if Intel were leveraging their microprocessors to also lock AMD out of flash memory sales or another related product you might have an angle you follow.
don't take the word function to literally. This could be as innocous as "does it look right". Akin to running a window31 version of software on XP. It might work fine but it certainly doesn't look or "feel" the same.
The motive is to better the chances of Linux being on the desktop. This means that your going to have some badly worded observations that say one thing to one group and something entirely else to another.
It is the casual user who controls the market. The buy what is sold to them and what is sold to them is the simplest software at the lowest price point. Windows is filling this bill because for the most part its insanely easy to use for the common user. Most will have passing familiarity with it from work or school. Throw them on OS/X and I bet a few would be confused initially but would adapt pretty quickly. Throw them on Linux and they should adapt as well, until they sit down at another Linux system using a different desktop and they will be confused as to what Linux is.
If standards like these are not in place it will forever be "vendor's Linux" or some marketing gimmicky name. Eventually people may restrict their development to a paticular vendor and their extensions. Its best to set the ground level and keep developers and users focused there. Otherwise you will continue to be fractured and just meander in the low % of users.
The question we face as a nation and as a world is, are we going to allow the few to dictate to the many? Are we going to allow people to suffer, in some areas of the world opposition does lead to suffering or furthering of it, because of a few?
Too many times those opposing any development live no where near it. They travel to the sites to protest or wage dissent from afar.
What it comes down to is that there are groups that feel as if they are above us. They think it is their place to tell others what is good for them and that these "others" must do without because it is for "the best".
Power is a valuable resource. With it we can bring the standards of living up for those it is provided too. With renewable resources we can accomplish this with very little impact on future generations except for perhaps a better environment. Keeping development of alternative and renewable resources only furthers the negative impact currently "dirty" methods cause.
What is ever so appalling is that many of these elites are politically connected, well off, and imposing on those who cannot afford alternatives to live a lesser life. They would rather sacrifice the comfort of others just so they can feel righteous in their position. Sure some are truly out to help the environment but they are misguided as nothing will ever meet their standards. As soon as their standard is met they will update it or another group will step in with more stringent requirements.
We have to face one thing, whether or not we do something to free our dependance on dirty sources of power and dependance on others for power, other countries will move forward. They will do what is necessary to improve their lives while we forever come up with excuses to sit back and do nothing.
Civilizations do not advance by sitting still. They do not advance by listening to every naysayer who pops out of the woodwork. But they do decline when they do sit still and become hamstrung by the naysayers into doing nothing. It is no different on the political front in the world as it is in the environmental front. Both will go from bad to worse if we reason ourself into a corner.
it makes you wonder, why did they buy Alienware?
Unless the real motive is an end-run to sell AMD chips I don't see the logic.
That is the problem. Hate speech is the catch-all that can be used to shut down any speech which someone or some government entity determines to be offensive.
When promoting hate speech rules the people behind them will always use the most extreme examples of speech they can find. Yet when applied it never ceases to amaze me what gets branded under the category. You will also see groups label the speech of others as "hate speech". With the help of their sister groups they can repeat this claim enough to where people are so used to hearing it they start to believe it true.
Remove the "hate speech" exception and it might be a plausible rule, leave it there and suddenly you may find one day that you cannot speak out against your "righteous leaders"
but you already paid or someone you meet probably has.
This fine will pass right through the channels and come from the investors in the company or the purchasers of their products. Embedded it will hit consumers who use products and services of people who purchase Symantec products.
does not acknowledge fact that Asheron's Call 2 closed in December. Does not acknowledge any new launches since the last true update (D&DO).
In fact, is any of it valid?
Perhaps he attempts to claim validity by overwhelming us with numbers and pretty graphs? I admit that he first started his charts I believed there was valid data. As it has gone on I begin to seriously doubt its relevance.
Being able to transport items combat troops is definitely going to be a major use for these machines so I have to ask the question. How long before they are armed? After all if you can just shoot it up it pretty much negates its use, if it can target and return fire that would aid the mission. Of course if you can defend yourself you can be offensive.
This would not only be useful in "declared zones" but undeclared humanitarian ones as well. Think of a place like Dafur (who everyone refuses to allow combat troops to go to - NATO was told no as well) where you have militants who would definitely intefere with aid packages.
Machines like this could also be equipped to go places too hazardous or just generally inaccessible by normal means. Drop one or two off in the remote areas for monitoring of conditions... If they could survive forest fires they could be used to rescue smoke jumpers who get in trouble or deliver supplies over logging roads through already burning areas.
One of the few times automating transport is harder for ground based versus air based.
On another note, how long before some developer decides to make them look closer to some famous movie machines?
It should not amaze us how stupid a great many people are. Yet at the same time we should be careful what we assign to the category of "stupid". There are many valid reasons to put what you think and do on the internet. The understanding is that there may be reprecussions and for that you must be willing to be subject to them.
While this deals with criminal activity or intent never forget that laws change and are abused and what may be alright one day may not be the next. Never forget what laws exist in countries you travel because it isn't far off that you may find yourself in trouble while traveling all because your name showed up in some database because of what you put on the net.
We always bemoan the government and even businesses getting into our personal existance and yet many will go out of their way to make it available on the internet and never once think about what they have done. Its no different than wandering the shady side of town at night but not as obvious to most.
the same manufactures doing a couple of things.
1. Putting out all sorts of products using OLEDs, expanding beyond what we conceive of light being used for
2. Putting out specialty incadescents/flourescents that fill the gaps in the first
If anything this expands their market and an innovative company will take off. Not all lighted items need to provide illumination that is bright enough to read by. A lot can be done with highlights, accenting areas with different shades and such. Accent lighting will be a big, replacing LEDs that are currently trying to edge into that market. All the business uses will help as well. It would be far much easier to use these for instore billboards than the flourescent lit displays so common today.
Now another area is backgrounds. Better for business use than home, though some may use it in homes. Can't imagine my home looking like 1999's moonbase but I can see walls in certain types of businesses where the whole area is covered and changed in color for events and such.
Lighting products are not all about letting you see things, some exist to be seen
The price difference will stop the majority cold.
Put the machines next to each other in BB/CU or whereever you choose. People are going to go for the lower priced solution. Sure you will get some of the "gotta out do the Jones clique" types but most will just "settle for the windows pc"
Besides, most of the surveys are bunk. I know a great many people on both sides, one whose fulltime job is mac support, and they both can report nearly the same percentage of gripers.